Institutional Email Address (學校郵箱): shidonglai@sjtu.edu.cn
Permanent Email Address (個人郵箱): flairdonglaishi@outlook.com

公共寫作|Media Articles
(A Mixture of Chinese and English)
2025
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“Flair Donglai Shi’s Reading List This Year 施东来年度书单”, Distant Reading (Chinese Department, East China Normal University) 远读(华东师范大学中文系) (2025), yearly book review collection. (Solicited by Prof. Luo Meng)
2024
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“On African Marvellous Realism in Shanghai 从《非凡现实主义》到二十一世纪的乌班图”, Fotografiska (2024), exhibition commentary. (Solicited by gallery)
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“The Same-sex Marriage that Remains Unattainable: Thoughts on the Entanglements of 'Left' and 'Right' in Contemporary Discursive Fields across the Taiwan Strait 無法達成的同志婚姻: 關於當代兩岸思想輿論場中 「左」「右」糾葛的思考”, Reflexion (思想), no. 49 (2024): 253-261. (Solicited by guest editor)
2023
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“The Minoritization of a Transnational Superstar” Sixth Tone (2023): online, Chinese version 中文版 published by Pengpai.
2022
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“Taking Heart in Tradition” China Daily (2022): interviewed by journalist Jiang Chenglong.
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“Documenting Life inside a 'China-Africa Factory': Interview with Director Zhang Yong” Sixth Tone (2022): online, Chinese version 中文版 published by Pengpai.
2021
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“A ‘Yellow Miracle’: How a Sprinter Became a Racial Icon” Sixth Tone (2021): invited by editor, republished on positions: web.
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“Between Sinophobia and Sinocentrism” positions: episteme 6 (2021): special issue organised by Andy Wang.
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“The Position and Resonance of 'Wen' in Yinguang's An Odyssey “文”的定位与共鸣:吟光《上山》的时代精神”, Southern Art China (中国南方艺术) (2021), online book commentary. (Solicited by author)
2020
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“Dire yet Diverse: Desperate Diaspora in Jenny Lu’s The Receptionist (2016)” University of Westminster, the Contemporary China Centre Blog (2020): invited blog piece on Chinese British culture. Republished in Cultural China 2020, University of Westminster Press 2021, 72-76.
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“Precarity and Prejudice” Cherwell (Oxford Student Paper) (2021): online commentary on racism during the pandemic.
2019
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“Post-colonialism Backfires: Be Proud of My Chinese Name Please?” Common Ground (2019): invited opinion piece.
2018
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“Of Course the Gay Has to Die: Why the Liberal White Audience Doesn't Get The Wound (2017)”, New Bloom (2018): online cultural commentary/film review. Republished by Race and Resistance Network at TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities).
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“The Translational Strategies of Legend of the Condor Heroes 《射雕英雄传》的翻译策略”, 文学报Wenxuebao (2018 May): invited online feature.
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“Jin Xing: Paradoxes of Queerness in Global China Today” Queer Studies Network at TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) (2018, Mar): online opinion piece.
2017
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“Self-Racism of the Chinese? Contextualizing Chinese Burn” Race and Resistance Network at TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) (2017, Dec): invited opinion piece. Republished in Neehao Magazine. A podcast interview with Offended Asian Feminists was subsequently conducted based on this piece.
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“How Far is World Literature? 我们离世界文学有多远” 单读 Dandu (2017 Jun): online. Republished by Sohu.
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“Interview with Flair Donglai Shi” Conversation with Writers (2017 May): online. (Invited by project manager)
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“An Overview of English Translations of Chinese Literature in 2016 二零一六年华语文学英译总结”, 文学报 Wenxuebao, Vol. 2585, Issue. II (2017): invited special front-page feature. Republished by 新华网Xinhuanet and 中国作家网ChinaWriters.
2015
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“On the Possibility of a New Pan-Asianism”, Contemporary Chinese Studies at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (regular contributor in 2014-2015).
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"Strawberry Candy" (fiction), Banana Writers (2015): online.

@ My Short Story 'Strawberry Candy'
illustrated by artist Qin Chuichui 秦垂垂

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